Re: [CentOS] java please help

2011-02-14 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 07:40 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > But I'm looking at http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/, and I'm > not even seeing hooks for RHEL 4. Is it worth pursuing compatibility > with that OS? Are other people using it? Well all the source rpms are there. If they will bu

Re: [CentOS] java please help

2011-02-11 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 20:03 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > If you need the latest/greatest, to play nicely, I can publish my > .spec files for the various Sun/Oracle published components. My > "jpackage-utils-compat-el5" package, in particular resolves some the > RHEL/CentOS spacific requireme

Re: [CentOS] PAE kernel source code

2011-02-09 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 21:06 -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hmmm...I place the following into firefox searchbox (google is my > search engine): "2.6.18-194.el5-PAE SRPM" > > I seem to have lots of hits (maybe they're no good): > > This one looks pretty good and it is the first one on the list:

Re: [CentOS] Is there a Centos 3 around ?

2011-02-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 15:27 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > A) Determine just how far they got in (did they get access to other systems?) All the bad stuff only resided in Volatile Memory and you Erased it when you shut down the machine and forgot to copy the Memory. :-) John

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 20:37 +, James Pearson wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > > > I told you already...the kernel calls insmod first...then "init_moule" > > then a "another sub r gets called to an actual init_module r > > That is how the kernel loads a mod

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 19:43 +, James Pearson wrote: > I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work > out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence > is this done? I told you already...the kernel calls insmod first...then "init_moule" the

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 17:38 +, James Pearson wrote: > I've been trying to work out how the various sound modules get loaded at > boot time on CentOS 5 - but I can't find anything obvious under /etc/rc.d/ and you want A call is done to "init_module" to sling it into memory then other things

Re: [CentOS] Significant speedup of package building with mock from EPEL for RHEL 6, should definitely go in CentOS 5

2011-02-05 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:44 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I just found a nasty bug. Hold off on using that. Share it a bz #? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-02-05 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 10:06 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > [root@SeVi ~]# vgrename /dev/VolGroup00 /dev/SeViGroup00 > Volume group "VolGroup00" still has active LVs > Internal error: Volume Group SeViGroup00 was not unlocked > Device '/dev/sda2' has been left open. > Device '/dev/sda2'

Re: [CentOS] Significant speedup of package building with mock from EPEL for RHEL 6, should definitely go in CentOS 5

2011-02-04 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:13 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/02/2011 01:01 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Karabhir, what are the odds of encouragng a switch to > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/mock-1.1.8-1.el6.src.rpm, and > > backporting it to centos/5/5/extras ? It's working ver

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-02-03 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:21 -0600, Gregory P.. Ennis wrote: > Thanks for the response. Does this mean there is nothing I can do to > make this happen. Is there a way to change the name of "VolGroup00"? > If so I have not found it yet. I see that I can change "LogVol00", but > have not figured

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:19 -0600, Tom G Murphy wrote: Nothing hard about doing this I do it a lot. My RT KickStart built into isolinux %post # Update the Install # We pull in our kern.repo file for updates. Magic! yum -y install -c http://192.168.2.200/kicks/kern.repo kernel-rt # Clean out

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:35 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, JohnS wrote: "+rm -rf %{buildroot}" Now I know you rebuild it more than one time instead of once. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:01 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: > DESTDIR=/home/ethan/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/libsrtp-1.4.4-2.20101004cvs.el5.em2.x86_64 Yea that probally confuses you and a lot of people. Pay that no mind. :-) > Where/how is %{buildroot} defined in your build environment? > Are you building on

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:02 -0500, JohnS wrote: > The problem is RPM is trying to install into the main file system > whereas el5 rpm does not need an incantation like so. I mean el6 sorry.. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:38 -0500, JohnS wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:07 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: > > It's your build environment that's the problem. They build for el5. > > Clean out your build root and recreate it and do a fresh .rpmmacros > file. >

Re: [CentOS] libsrtp package anywhere?

2011-01-26 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:07 -0500, Bob Beers wrote: It's your build environment that's the problem. They build for el5. Clean out your build root and recreate it and do a fresh .rpmmacros file. John Wrote: /home/ethan/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libsrtp-1.4.4-2.20101004cvs.el5.em2.src.rpm Wrote: /home/et

Re: [CentOS] kernel security issues

2011-01-25 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 02:24 -0800, Dave wrote: > Question: Are those alerts mostly specifically centos related or do they > also affect the vanilla sources? Yes and No. It is dependent on where you are getting the source security updates from. Some times it can come down all the way from kernel

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 18:42 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Oracle does, I know. Does RH? Yea they sure do in "mERG". There's a difference though one is a Throughput based kernel and one is realtime based with full preemption: 2.6.33.7-rt29.47.el5rt RT based 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 Throughput

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 01:06 +0200, mahmoud mansy wrote: > more explanation plz! Nothing much ado about nothing to really explain. Just have to search google :-)... This is the other one [1] the source from upstream. Of which you have to find one built for CentOS like this one [2] exclusively :

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:33 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > Upgrading the kernel *can* work, but defeats the purpose of running an > enterprise OS. I find your statement to not be true at all. Upstream offers two (2) different Enterprise Level kernels to pick, choose and play with. CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 17:07 -0700, Terry Hickey wrote: It't as simple as this Terry: This is under CentOS 5 from EPEL so they may have it for CentOS4 [ethan@midnight ~]$ yum whatprovides */libt1.so.5 --enablerepo=\*epel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror epel | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > This is on software which ran as POS stuff. Yea but the catch is it is left up to YOU being responsible for what happens on that network. Very candid HIPPA states only `data at rest` does not have to be. In my state I live in I am the

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Giles Coochey wrote: > > [...] > > > I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT > > best practice. > > I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance > with some pharmacy software. I

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-16 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > You can ignore md5 for now - they are just for verifying that the file > you've downloaded has not been modified. You should not tell him to ignore it but tell him how to use it and what it is for. "md5sum my.iso" Validate the ISO

Re: [CentOS] Network bandwidth tools. || RPM Builder

2011-01-16 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 15:16 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > I'm willing to build it for Centos 5.5 if that helps :) > > Keith Looks like another builder here? Makes 3 now? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] Recompiling source rpms for i386, i686 and x86_64 on the same box?

2011-01-13 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:25 +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > At the risk of sounding like an newbie, is is possible to build the RPMS > for all architectures on the same box at the same time? That would be dependent upon your build environment and how you set it up. As in a mock based chroot or

Re: [CentOS] variable raid1 rebuild speed?

2011-01-12 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 12:38 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I have a 750Gb 3-member software raid1 where 2 partitions are always > present and the third is regularly rotated and re-synced (SATA disks in > hot-swap bays). The timing of the resync seems to be extremely variable > recently, taking a

Re: [CentOS] Terminal with variable sized font

2011-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 22:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Is there a terminal that allows you to set the rows and columns that you want > and then resizes the text instead? gnome-terminal has a zoom-in and zoom-out > function that's close to what I want but it's not "infinite" and works by > repeate

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall & NFS using local server.

2011-01-04 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 16:42 -0500, Lisandro Grullon wrote: > Anyone out there tried to do an install via NFS using their own local > NFS server rather than streaming the entire process? Would it be hard to have a little patience? "showmount -e hostname" for the server? Try it on another client

Re: [CentOS] noob question about mock

2011-01-02 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 00:20 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Which Version Number? There are a few of them already patched from F12 > > to Rawhide. No I do not have anything to do with CentOS Extras but I > > have the currious mind. > > I'm using the mock-1.0.14 from "epel-testing", that has

Re: [CentOS] noob question about mock

2011-01-02 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 22:14 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I'd love to see it backported to CentOS 'extras' or 'build' setups. > It's a better tool and supports more releases, including hooks now for > CentOS 6 when it is published. (The hooks assume that CentOS 6 will > live in the same locat

Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution?

2010-12-21 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 23:01 +0100, Antonello Piemonte wrote: > Hello > IOTOP from here [1]. From a very quick glance of the Specfile it should build with no problems under EL5. John [1] http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-19 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 13:46 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > http://www.karsites.net/centos/downloads/5.5/qps-1.9.18.6-1.i386.rpm You should have a /5/ /x86_64 /i386 /SRPMS Structure to the directori

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 13:23 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/17/10 12:36 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > Mine is not broken. The web Admin works like it should. > > Just to be clear - do you mean you are running vmware 2.x server under post > 5.2 > Centos without the l

Re: [CentOS] Intel NIC

2010-12-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 11:11 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/17/10 10:21 AM, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > The 2.x series of vmware server are badly broken with respect to RHEL/Centos > - > plus the change to the web based console is horrible. Mine is not broken. The web Admin works like it sh

Re: [CentOS] Howto batch sign RPM packages?

2010-12-09 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 23:28 +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: What's so hard about: #!/bin/expect It will take care of all that for you in a jiffie... Yea you need a passphrase of which expect can handle for you. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] firefox. java. 64 bit. bleah!

2010-11-21 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 21:39 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Lars Hecking wrote: > > Nicolas Thierry-Mieg writes: > >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Found this, and I > >>> remember the plugins directory... except firefox 3.6.11, I can't f

Re: [CentOS] something chmod'ing /dev/null

2010-11-17 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:45 -0800, Joe Pruett wrote: > > On 11/17/2010 10:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:16:51 -0800 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > > > >> it looks like one of the recent updates will sometimes chmod /dev/null > >> to 600. out of 20 machines i've updat

Re: [CentOS] FW: Permissions issue

2010-11-11 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 13:23 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > This happens for every file that is created by a tar czf command. > > > > > > If you do a tar cz | cat > file.tgz the file is "normal" > > > > > > I am very confused now. > > --- > > rpm verify the tar package and the gzip package is

Re: [CentOS] FW: Permissions issue

2010-11-11 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 13:01 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron > > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:48 > > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > > Subject: [CentOS] FW: Permiss

Re: [CentOS] Network card not working after update to 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5

2010-11-10 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 10:16 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > So, it seems that Ubuntu and CentOS somehow conflicted in their > management of the network card. > I don't understand how it is possible though, since the machine is > rebooted (I also did some tests, where I was cuttin all power supply

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

2010-11-09 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 15:32 -0500, Nicolas Ross wrote: > > Have you looked at Red Hat's GFS? That seems to fit at least a portion of > > your needs (I don't use it, so I don't know all that it does). > > I've spent better part of the last day to read documentation on gfs2 on > redhat's site. >

Re: [CentOS] Running a DNS signed zone on Centos 5.5

2010-11-09 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:14 -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > Since we now have .com signed I want to get my domain signed as well, > > but I see that Centos 5.5 is running BIND 9.3.6 and a thread on the BIND > > list recommends against running a DNSSEC

Re: [CentOS] Recycle Bin disappeared (GNOME, CentOS 5.5, 32 bit)

2010-11-07 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:59 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Lanny Marcus > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > I installed and ran gconf-editor. The trash-icon-visibl

Re: [CentOS] Recycle Bin disappeared (GNOME, CentOS 5.5, 32 bit)

2010-11-07 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 08:59 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Lanny Marcus > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > >> It is possible that it is there but not visible on the desktop. > >> Install gconf-editor (yum install gconf-editor) and r

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-25 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 01:47 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/24/2010 02:25 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 13:12 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> On 10/22/2010 08:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > >>> PermitEmptyPasswords no In sshd_config

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-24 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 13:12 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/22/2010 08:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > PermitEmptyPasswords no In sshd_config on the server ??? That > > would work for keys that do not have a password. You created the key > > without a password right? > > The server doe

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 23:17 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > uhm.. what's your problem, dude? > My problem is you Private Key is Wide Open to the whole World so now go and create a new one, unless you the world to have it. :-) John ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:29 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org delete this email expung it from public view??? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-October/100563.html; ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 22:29 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > still failed... :( > > [bluethu...@virtcent02 ~]$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > [bluethu...@virtcent02 ~]$ ssh virt1 > bluethu...@virt1's password: > Last login: Fri Oct 22 22:31:41 201

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 16:25 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote > >> > > >> > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct. Otherwise, &

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote > > > > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct. Otherwise, yes. --- chmod 755 ~/.ssh chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys John drwxr-xr-x 2 ethan ethan4096 Oct 10 17:16 .ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 ethan ethan 396 Oct 10 17:16 aut

Re: [CentOS] black display during installation of CentOS5.5

2010-10-21 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 00:28 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/20/10 10:38 PM, Ritika Garg wrote: > > I had posted the following question 4-5 days ago. I want to add > > something to the question which is important. The question was: > > During installation of CentOS5.3 from DVD, the installatio

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-20 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I just went as far as seeing it wouldn't take .xlsx (2007+ default > format). It does look like the rpmforge .57 version will accept the > .xls format file, although I think it seems slower than loading excel > and doing a 'save as' to

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-20 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:34 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with "commit=6000". > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > > > > You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner > > therefore f

Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:21 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/19/2010 02:09 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > > That is what it does. It *licenses* distribution between people. You > > can't say "it's under GPL - but you can't redistribute it because I've > > Ok, so that is the point I am tryi

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on > Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second > freeze) every 5-10 seconds. "top" showed flush-253:0 > process at the moment of the freeze. And what is the

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 10/18/2010 5:31 PM, JohnS wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates > >> to csv so my perl

Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:13 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates > to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database. Is > there a better way? I haven't had much luck with > perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:55 -0400, JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > > Exactly the problem! It pings fine (so I know that connections can be > > established over the physical wires) and on the IP address telnet > > answe

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 22:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Exactly the problem! It pings fine (so I know that connections can be > established over the physical wires) and on the IP address telnet > answers. However, telnet to port 25 (smtp) with the domain name fails. > Why could that be? --- Wh

Re: [CentOS] Installing Adaptec Storage Manager - needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2010-10-18 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:35 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote: > Unfortunately not. > > This is the contents of /usr/lib: > > r...@backup lib]# ll libstdc* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 262092 Jan 6 2007 > libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 18 17:23 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.s

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:55 -0500, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: > > Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being > > excluded? > > mahalo, > > easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something > like this : > > http:

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:53 -1000, Dave wrote: > Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? > mahalo, > TDB > --- yum update -d3 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Config time: 0.111 Yum Version: 3.2.22 Setting up Package Sacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hos

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:58 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Folks, > >We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking > for "peer holds all free leases", and happened to run across > , > which is rate

Re: [CentOS] SquashFS: how good is it?

2010-10-12 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:28 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:44 PM, JohnS wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > >>> Hello listmates, &g

Re: [CentOS] SquashFS: how good is it?

2010-10-12 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:37 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > Hello listmates, > > Have any of you used SquashFS? > > See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS > > We have tried it on small file sets, seems good but if you have > experience using it, especially to store/archive lage volumes of > f

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 21:35 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, JohnS wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > >> There is very little to explain, if all you want to do is examine the > >> source. > >> >

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:36 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 18:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > but it's a little high-handed to not > > explain how to do something because you've decided it's not something > > you want *others* to know. > > There is very little to explain, i

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:56 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > so they can examine the source of some packages. is the approach i'm > suggesting reasonable? thanks. > > rday --- All on Debian ? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] MegaRAID Storage Manager on CentOS 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:33 +0100, James Pearson wrote: > Does anyone have the 'MegaRAID Storage Manager' GUI working on CentOS 5.5? > > I can run it, but it won't let me log in. > > The docs state that it requires the local root username and password - > but it always rejects this with "Messag

Re: [CentOS] dev.centos.org backuppc package

2010-09-26 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 00:19 -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Jason Pyeron > > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:02 > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: dev.centos.org backuppc package > > > > I have a few updates to fix some bugs. > > > > Do attachments

Re: [CentOS] performance and interrupts

2010-09-24 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 08:57 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > I am playing around with irqbalance to tune my 8 core system so I came > across this page, > http://kb.fusionio.com/KB/a65/irqbalance-avoid-overloading-cpu-0-with-interrupt-requests.aspx > > Now, lets say I disable irqbalance which will stop my

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, Firefox, and Java Plugin

2010-09-23 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 00:12 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote: > >> Starting in Firefox 3.6.7 (I think) the (Sun) Java plugin changed names. > >> Here is what it should look like ... > >> > >> $ ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jun 24 19:32 > >> /usr/lib/mozilla/p

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, Firefox, and Java Plugin

2010-09-22 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 22:37 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote: > > Starting in Firefox 3.6.7 (I think) the (Sun) Java plugin changed names. > Here is what it should look like ... > > $ ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jun 24 19:32 > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libn

Re: [CentOS] Issue with HP Officejet 6500 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-19 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 01:42 -0700, Mark wrote: > I had no trouble configuring it to print, but it doesn't appear in > lsusb and xsane can't find it, so I can't scan with it, which is the > main reason I bought it in the first place. --- Yeap my Scan Jet was the same way. It printed but would not

Re: [CentOS] should vsftpd be disabled in favour of sftp for security reasons?

2010-09-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 05:51 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > (another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the > sake of future courses taught on centos.) > > from this RHEL doc page: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-o

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 03:39 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in RHEL admin > but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5. it's a > decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic, standard admin > topics but it does leave me about a

Re: [CentOS] Centos Virtual Machine 32 bit with 8 GB ram ?

2010-09-14 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:19 +0200, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:01:13 +0200 > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > Even so, most machines today performs multiple tasks, so 3GB limit per > > process isn't really that big an issue, unless you render graphics > > with a mono-threaded appl

Re: [CentOS] TCP flow latency graphs

2010-09-14 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 15:28 +0200, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > Hello, > > we have one application which gets some data from our database but > to print just one result it connects many times to the database over WAN. > Of course there are some performance related problems with this type of work

Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

2010-09-06 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:22 -0700, Chuck wrote: > > Yea but that isn't the 64-bit.. I can download fast and w/o issues.. I > can't get the _64bit_ DVD ISO. I can get the 64bit cdrom images 1 > -7... but not the DVD ISO __via the torrent__. > --- Ok problem solved see [1]. You need [2]. I know i

Re: [CentOS] System beeps in kernel 2.6.18-194

2010-08-31 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:40 -0400, Glenn Eychaner wrote: > > * Mon Dec 21 2009 Jarod Wilson [2.6.18-183.el5] > [...] > < - [sound] alsa hda driver update for rhel5.5 (Jaroslav Kysela) [525390] > > How do I go about backing out this change (reverting the alsa hda drivers in > the -194 kernel t

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:17 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Given that modern hard drives can remap damaged sectors automatically, > it is quite possible for an 'erased' drive to still have data on it that > can't be removed by any software based erasure because it can't be > accessed by the OS

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:17 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > (from http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15817/eng/README.txt) --- I read that also. Will they work without using the Intel Driver? As in using the kernel driver in the kernel. Seems to me it should because the e1000 is a fairly popular car

Re: [CentOS] Cannot set MTU != 1500 on Intel NIC

2010-08-20 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 09:36 +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > > I tried with Intel's most recent driver, it shows the same behaviour: > > [r...@bla ~]# ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1576 > SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument > [r...@bla ~]# ip link set dev eth1 mtu 1576 > [r...@bla ~]# ip link show dev eth1 >

Re: [CentOS] odd situation slightly off topic (sending file descriptors to another process)

2010-08-19 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 16:22 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > Jerry Geis wrote: > > I have coded up the standard sendfd() and recvfd() for linux to send > > and recv file descriptors. > > seems to work > > (http://book.chinaunix.net/special/ebook/addisonWesley/APUE2/0201433079/ch17lev1sec4.html) > >

Re: [CentOS] too many open files

2010-08-19 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:44 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I am getting an error about to many open files. > I tried to "echo 50 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" > The number is there now, but I continue to get the error. > > Is there something else to do? For EL 5? You don't say? # /etc/security/lim

Re: [CentOS] Power failure diagnosis?

2010-08-19 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 15:51 -0400, Preston Connors wrote: > Mark, > > You can look through the output of the 'last' command. last may tell you > what the state of the system was before it rebooted/crashed and also the > time it happened. 'last -x' will tell you more detailed information > regard

Re: [CentOS] Mark facility in CentOS

2010-08-15 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 02:08 +, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all! > > This is my first message to the list. Some time ago I'm user of Debian > GNU/Linux and recently I also started to use CentOS GNU/Linux. > > Does anyone know how to enable t

Re: [CentOS] uuid problem while compiling glue

2010-08-14 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 11:07 +0800, Tang Jianwei wrote: ### > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/root/Reusable-Cluster-Components-glue-1.0.5/lib/clplumbing' > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Reusable-Cluster-Components-glue-1.0.5/lib' > m

Re: [CentOS] uuid problem while compiling glue

2010-08-14 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 16:22 +0800, Tang Jianwei wrote: > well, the problem you found can be resolve like this: > edit lib/stonith/main.c by comment of the contents about the version(); While that may be true, but did you see my comment in the %configure section for the specfile? All warnings (f

Re: [CentOS] uuid problem while compiling glue

2010-08-13 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 11:07 +0800, Tang Jianwei wrote: > what should I do to fix those problems? --- Try & try again & don't build it as root& ask on the linux-ha LIST... Full CentOS/RH 5.5 + epel repo should build it. No EL6 packages are needed. But if you try to build the EL6 version one

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-13 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 09:47 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/13/2010 4:06 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > > On 8/12/2010 8:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Clients should never be 'balky' if you have a stable clock source - > perhaps with the exception of some virtual machine situations or > seriously ba

Re: [CentOS] DHCP problem with virtual interfaces

2010-08-11 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:18 +0200, Simone Caldana wrote: > # dhclient -V > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat I have always thought this to be a bug. Maybe your views reinforce it even more. How ever I have not filed a bug report because my issue only stems to cheap routers

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 12:12 -0400, JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:05 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >Or block all networks like china,japan,india and so on. Can get these from > > >ICANN. > > > > Actually. that might just be enough, I know this site

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 16:05 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >Or block all networks like china,japan,india and so on. Can get these from > >ICANN. > > Actually. that might just be enough, I know this site won't need access > from other that NA addresses which is an easy rule to build permanently.

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:58 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I agree, and if my edge router had the functionality to inspect > http requests I would:) --- Ahh, so is it really http requests you want to stop? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:29 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal > >"Question about persistant IP bans over restart" > > > >I think you need to adapt the example to CentOS/RH > > Yeah, I saw that one and implemented it. I think I have

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban behavior

2010-08-09 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 13:58 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > ? That's what fail2ban is setup to do, as the email suggested its > not restoring bans correctly on restarts. --- http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal "Question about persistant IP bans over restart" I

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